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Computer croaked...lost all bookmarks. :(

T

Tincap

Well, my computer up and died. I've backed up all my work related stuff, but my bookmarks are gone.

I'll probably be using this thread from time to time and lean on you guys (and gals) trying to recover some of the important DX related sites.

Stay tuned!

~BG
 
As things are coming back to me and I build up my DX bookmarks again, I figure I'd share the URLs of some of the sites which I use. You're all welcome to add to the list! :D

This one's great for TA DXing. Updates often.

http://www.emwg.info/

This one's good too, for MW and FM, but is a bit buggy.

http://fmscan.org/

This is a good one for shortwave. You can enter by broadcaster, language or frequency.

http://www.short-wave.info/

This one's good for distance calculation, between you and the transmitter.

http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm



~BG
 
Tincap said:
As things are coming back to me and I build up my DX bookmarks again, I figure I'd share the URLs of some of the sites which I use. You're all welcome to add to the list! :D

This one's great for TA DXing. Updates often.

http://www.emwg.info/

This one's good too, for MW and FM, but is a bit buggy.

http://fmscan.org/

This is a good one for shortwave. You can enter by broadcaster, language or frequency.

http://www.short-wave.info/

This one's good for distance calculation, between you and the transmitter.

http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm



~BG
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Sorry about your computer, but thanks for the bookmarks.
 
Because in Firefox all the bookmarks are stored in a flat HTML file (typically called bookmarks.html) that you can easily copy to other machines, back up, send to other people, post all over the Internet and trade like baseball cards, etc. Really easy to manage. Other Mozilla-based browsers tend to use this method as well, down to the earliest distributions of Netscape. (But who even uses Netscape these days? ;o)

Last I checked, IE only uses loose *.url files ("favourites" in Micro$peak) stored in a bunch of directories spread all over your hard drive. This is only compatible with IE, but if you're desperate enough you can open each *.url file with a text editor and copy them into an HTML file and hope for the best. Gets pretty tedious if you have lots of them!

I just mentioned Firefox because that's what I've been using to generate and manage my bookmarks.html file for years.
 
Darth_vader said:
Because in Firefox all the bookmarks are stored in a flat HTML file (typically called bookmarks.html) that you can easily copy to other machines, back up, send to other people, post all over the Internet and trade like baseball cards, etc. Really easy to manage. Other Mozilla-based browsers tend to use this method as well, down to the earliest distributions of Netscape. (But who even uses Netscape these days? ;o)

Last I checked, IE only uses loose *.url files ("favourites" in Micro$peak) stored in a bunch of directories spread all over your hard drive. This is only compatible with IE, but if you're desperate enough you can open each *.url file with a text editor and copy them into an HTML file and hope for the best. Gets pretty tedious if you have lots of them!

I just mentioned Firefox because that's what I've been using to generate and manage my bookmarks.html file for years.
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I asked because I use firefox. Thanks for letting me in on something I didn't know.
 
You can also do Ctrl-Shift-O, which brings up the "Organise Bookmarks" window. Near the top you'll see an "Import and Backup" thing, this enables you to save everything to a new "bookmarks.html" file or load an existing one. If I remember correctly, that's also how you'd do it in Netscape 4, onward.
 
Darth_vader said:
You can also do Ctrl-Shift-O, which brings up the "Organise Bookmarks" window. Near the top you'll see an "Import and Backup" thing, this enables you to save everything to a new "bookmarks.html" file or load an existing one. If I remember correctly, that's also how you'd do it in Netscape 4, onward.
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I tried that, but it's not working for me.
 
MarioMania said:
What Browser did you use before it died??
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Google Chrome

It's Windows which blew up (Not the first time on that machine...thank you, Bill Gates) and I've been trying to take a peek into the HDD, by slaving it. No luck yet. However, my important stuff I've backed up, so really, it's just a matter of when I have the time to play around with the old HDD and see what I can recover.

Currently, I'm running bare bones, but when I find more cool stuff, I'll share.

~BG
 
Oh man, that's a mess. I have had to re-build my Win2KSP4 many, many times within the last six years or so that I've been using it, because some programme or something hosed the whole thing and left so unstable as to be inoperable. And that's why I now keep Window$ on its own partition, away from my other data and software. That way I only have to re-format one part of the drive instead of the whole thing.......

Still a good way to kill a stormy Northwestern afternoon, tho!

How are you runnning "bare bones"? Boot up off a DOS disk?
 
Darth_vader said:
How are you runnning "bare bones"? Boot up off a DOS disk?
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No sir, my version of "bare bones" is a brand new computer, with just a few bookmarks ;D.

Actually, 'brand new' is incorrect, as I've had this new tower setting in my studio, for about half a year, just waiting for the old one to expire. I don't know how many times I've had to bring the old dog into the pros, but Windows never ran properly on that thing. I have done regular backups to my external HDD, but never saved my bookmarks.

As for the new one, I'm finding technical glitches with my important peripherals...which don't seem to like Windows 7. :mad:

~BG
 
Tincap said:
As for the new one, I'm finding technical glitches with my important peripherals...which don't seem to like Windows 7. :mad:
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Try Linux. Use a more consumer-friendly version like Mint or Ubuntu on a USB if you're not familiar with it. That way you can try it without blowing up Windows. If your peripherals work on Linux, then you will probably need to download some Windows drivers if you want to keep using it.
 
Yup. Personally I'd suggest going plain Debian instead of Ubuntu, but I'd also suggest holding off going that way for a while if you're not very familiar with how Linux works. Ubuntu is more of an "everyman's Linux" whilst plain Debian is more of a "programmer's Linux", but even the latter can be tamed.

(Besides, Ubuntu is really just a stripped-down and somewhat feature-reduced version of Debian, anyways....)
 
KeithE4 said:
Try Linux. Use a more consumer-friendly version like Mint or Ubuntu on a USB if you're not familiar with it. That way you can try it without blowing up Windows. If your peripherals work on Linux, then you will probably need to download some Windows drivers if you want to keep using it.
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I remember playing with Linux on our SGI Indigos, years ago during college. The machines were meant for 3D modeling, with Alias Wavefront, but I would fool around with them, in order to get RealAudio Player up and running to stream online radio. I don't think there were much more than a couple dozen stations streaming at that time, during the autumn of '96. :D

~BG
 
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